Did you speak to Cazador before attacking him?

I've been reading a bit about other endings for Astarion (because I have no intention of playing one where he becomes an even bigger pos or he's unhappy 🥺) and I've seen people say to "help free Astarion before turn 3" and I was like uuuhh?? Why would he be trapped anywhere?

Turns out there's a cutscene if you speak to Cazador when he traps him lmao, as soon as I saw that bastard I cast daylight on him and destroyed him, didn't even deserve an insult, just pain.

That's why I was also confused on why was Astarion half naked in the next cutscene 🤣 like when did he strip down lmao